{"id":19838,"date":"2020-11-12T21:55:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T02:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19838"},"modified":"2020-11-24T14:09:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T19:09:28","slug":"pussy-willow-salix-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19838","title":{"rendered":"Pussy Willow (<em>Salix<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19841\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_20201112_179840.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19841\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_20201112_179840-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Pussy Willow (Salix)\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_20201112_179840-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_20201112_179840-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_20201112_179840-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_20201112_179840-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/img_20201112_179840.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pussy Willow (<em>Salix<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Back in January, Dorothy brought some <em>Ranunculus asiaticus<\/em> for our dining room table. I posted a photo of one on <a href=\"?p=18354\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Friday, January 17<\/a>. They were lovely while they lasted. At the same time, Dorothy brought some pussy willow stems and I posted a photo of them the next day, <a href=\"?p=18358\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday, January 18<\/a>. These, amazingly, have been on the sideboard in our dining room since then and are still looking pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Pussy willow is the a common name for various <em>Salix<\/em> species and <em>Salix discolor<\/em> in particular. The common name references their furry catkins, as seen in this photo. They are dioecious plants, meaning the male and female catkins are on separate plants. In general, it\u2019s the male catkins that are used ornamentally as they are generally the more attractive of the two. They are very soft, like a kitten\u2019s paw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in January, Dorothy brought some Ranunculus asiaticus for our dining room table. I posted a photo of one on Friday, January 17. They were lovely while they lasted. At the same time, Dorothy brought some pussy willow stems and I posted a photo of them the next day, Saturday, January 18. These, amazingly, have &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=19838\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[2212,2210,2211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19842,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19838\/revisions\/19842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}